Notes on the design of programming languages

A programming language is actually an interface technology. It provides an interface, a communication channel between two fundamentally different technologies: the one which is a basically a Turing machine or some kind of a Neumann architecture, and the other one which is some kind of a hierarchical pattern recognition system with some deep level neuroscience mechanism, with other words called as the brain. A good programming language is designed for both environments, not just to the hardware environment but to the neocortex as well. 

Most limits of current technologies are actually limits of our neocortex

Different kinds of technologies are said to have limits, problems, drawbacks. However in some or most cases there are limits of the technology itself but limits of our own neocortex. As an example, according to the social scaling idea from Nick Szabo, the result of the institutional systems in the trust based services is the direct result of our neocortex is able to handle at most around 150 social connections. Probably, our love for the different hierarchical structures is the direct result that our neocortex is organized in a hierarchical way.